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Thursday, July 07, 2005

FOXNews.com - Foxlife - Parents, Retailers Clash Over Game Ban

"Offensive content has prompted a new law in Illinois, the first state to pass a ban on the rental and sale of violent and sexually explicit video games to minors."

This is a great example of a law protecting parents from parenting their children.

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said. “But I don't believe that my 8-year-old daughter has a constitutional right to cut someone's head off in a game that she plays."

Don't let her play the game. That's just one idea I had.

"..says many parents are ignorant about these games.

"Parents oftentimes don't realize the games have ratings. And they don't know what the ratings mean," she said."

Parents need to be aware of everything their children are doing. I could be wrong but I believe that is part of being a parent.

The scary thing is that these are "educated" people trying to pass this law. I bet these same people are/were too busy to parent their children.






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Sunday, July 03, 2005

CNN.com - Source:Special ops member rescued in Afghanistan - Jul 3, 2005: "Among those killed in the chopper crash were eight Navy SEALs assigned to units in Norfolk, Virginia, and San Diego, California; seven soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, based at Hunter Army Airfield in Georgia; and one soldier from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment at Fort Campbell, Kentucky."

I am excited to here this team member was rescued. I can only hope the other two soldiers are still evading the enemy.

It's incredibly unfortunate when a large number of soldiers are killed simultaneously. Especially unfortunate that so many members of the small 160th aviation group were killed. That could be the single largest number of 160th members killed in a single incident, ever.
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Here is a shot from my first "mission". I was more of a guest but it was great learning experience. Most of our birds fly with just one crewchief, in this case we flew with two. I was the second.
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